Maximag

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Maximag

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founding 1922
resolution 1928
Seat Carouge GE, SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Maximag from 1924

Maximag was a Swiss car brand.

Company history

Motosacoche from Carouge already manufactured motorcycles and built- in engines. From 1922 onwards, automobiles were also produced under the brand name Maximag . In 1928 automobile production ended after around 200 vehicles were manufactured.

vehicles

The 5 CV model was a small car . It had a four-cylinder engine with side valves and a displacement of 1093 cm³ ( bore 59 mm, stroke 100 mm). The engine was installed at the front and drove the rear wheels via a three-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft . There was a choice of bodies with two and four seats. Four-wheel brakes were not used in the first models.

Three vehicles of this brand survived. One of them can be seen in the Musée de l'automobile de la Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny .

An advertisement also mentions a sport version of 8 PS Grand Sport . Here the engine of the same size is said to have produced 30 hp .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Maximag.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 978. (English)
  • Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6 , pp. 123–125.

Web links

Commons : Maximag  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Pantheon Basel (accessed on June 24, 2017)